When all is said and done, the Guardians may well prove to give the Yankees a tough test over the course of the ALCS.

It did not happen in Game 1.

The Yankees didn’t exactly walk all over their latest AL Central foe, but they did walk, take advantage of four wild pitches and slug enough to make sure Carlos Rodon’s dominant outing did not go to waste in a 5-2 win over the Guardians on Monday night in The Bronx.

“We know this is good, but in our eyes, we haven’t done nothing yet,” said Giancarlo Stanton, who remained red-hot with a 439-foot solo home run in the seventh inning that put the Yankees up 5-1.

Rodon turned in a strong bounce-back start from his ALDS letdown, tossing six innings of one-run ball with nine strikeouts (seven via his slider) and 25 whiffs.

He succeeded in his goal of maintaining his composure after not being able to do so against the Royals last week, and got the Yankees off on the right foot in the ALCS.

The Yankees were unable to break the game open because they went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position — making it 6-for-42 in the postseason — but did enough to get by.

They recorded more walks (seven) than hits (six) and have drawn 34 free passes through five playoff games. While they have been missing the big hit with runners on base to break a game open, they are confident it is coming if they keep having quality at-bats.

“This team trusts each other a lot, and no one needs to be the guy,” said Anthony Rizzo, who went 1-for-3 with a walk in his first game back after fracturing two fingers 16 days ago. “There’s a lot of guys in here that have done some pretty special things in this game. It’s just passing it on to the next one. Up and down our lineup, it doesn’t matter who’s up, we believe in them. That’s our mentality. I think it shows how close we are and the trust we have.”

In between solo home runs from Juan Soto and Stanton, the Yankees did not record a hit but scored three runs. They did so by drawing six walks and running station to station as Guardians reliever Joey Cantillo — Cleveland’s latest version of the Wild Thing — threw four wild pitches.

After Soto took Alex Cobb deep to lead off the third inning for a 1-0 lead, the right-hander walked the bases loaded and got knocked out of the game.

Cantillo entered and spiked a pair of fastballs that allowed Aaron Judge and then Stanton to score from third to make it 3-0.

“That’s what good teams do,” Soto said. “It’s not all about one guy, it’s about the whole lineup. We put pressure on those guys, taking pitches and getting our walks, getting guys over, bases loaded, making those guys make wild pitches and everything. So I think at the end of the day, it’s a team effort, and we showed up today.”

Cantillo came back out for the fourth inning and walked Gleyber Torres, then threw two more wild pitches to Soto, which allowed Torres to take third and score on Judge’s sacrifice fly that made it 4-0.

The Guardians finally cracked the scoreboard against Rodon in the sixth inning when No. 9 hitter Brayan Rocchio turned on an inside fastball and drilled it for a solo home run that cut the deficit to 4-1.

But Rodon did not let his night unravel because of a long ball — as he did in the ALDS when Salvador Perez took him deep — retiring the top of the Guardians’ lineup in order to finish his night in style.

“It’s not that it’s hard,” Rodon said of keeping his emotions in check. “It’s just being mindful of it and being focused on the next pitch, and I think that kind of leads to that robot, that poker face.”

The Guardians scratched across one run in the top of the eighth thanks in part to an obstruction call on reliever Tim Hill — the first earned run scored against the Yankees bullpen this postseason — but manager Aaron Boone called on Luke Weaver for the five-out save and he delivered once again.

Weaver has saves in each of the Yankees’ four wins this postseason. Perhaps one of these nights they will take advantage of all their traffic on the bases and give Weaver the night off.

But for now, they did enough to get an early lead and avoid the best arms in the Guardians’ bullpen on the way to a 1-0 series lead.

“I thought a lot of heavy at-bats again,” Boone said. “That kind of set us up and put Carlos in a good position.”